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We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more ext

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within. – Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man

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Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. – Confucius

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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. – Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

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The path of civilization is paved with tin cans. – Elbert Hubbard

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Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor. – Arnold Toynbee

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